Boehner: Impeachment talk a Dem 'scam' to raise money

Boehner: Impeachment talk a Dem 'scam' to raise money
House Speaker John Boehner flatly denied Tuesday that congressional Republicans are moving to impeach President Barack Obama, blasting talk about it as "a scam started by Democrats at the White House."



Not only do I not believe the GOP has ruled out impeachment, I think they moved the 2016 RNC up to start on Hillary's impeachment earlier.- LOLGOP

The World Is A Safer Place Without Saddam

• 15 killed at Gaza UN school; Israel holds fire
• Diplomat: Criticism of Kerry not from Netanyahu
• Libyan militants seize Benghazi special forces base
• Ukraine official: Rebels lay mines near crash site
• Former Lebanese MP mistakenly shoots himself

“I find it very odd that the Republican Party, now that Eric Cantor has been voted out of office, has zero Jews in Congress. They have 278 people, zero Jews. And they’re the ones who back Israel like they are King David.” – Bill Maher

US Is Profiting From War
The United States plans to sell 5,000 Hellfire missiles to Iraq in a $700 million deal, officials said Tuesday, as Washington tries to help Baghdad retake ground captured by Sunni militants.



A new poll shows that younger Americans sympathize less with Israel than older generations did. But then again, most young Americans think Israel is the cat on "The Smurfs."- Seth Myers

The right wing's version of keeping it classy.

North Korea Wants To Join In On The Fireworks
North Korea fired four short-range projectiles toward the ocean off its east coast on Wednesday in its latest in a series of missile and artillery tests, officials said.

Female North Korean soldiers wearing 4 inch high heels. Really.

Republican Shenanigans

• NRA lobbyist: Anti-gun Jews support policies that could create another Holocaust
• GOP candidate Jody Hice: Christians must ‘rise up’ against hypothetical atheists in Congress
• Oops! Stephen Colbert trolls Sarah Palin, bags TheSarahPalinChannel.com
• Geraldo Rivera Causes Controversy: 'What a Woman Brings to a Marriage More Than Anything Else ... Is Her Youth'
• Rush Limbaugh Brags That He’s Responsible for the Dumbing Down of America
• Pope Francis sounds too much like Obama to be honored by Congress, Republican says

We should trust Republicans when they say they won't impeach. When have they ever failed to learn a lesson from a mistake they've made?- LOLGOP

More Proof The Right Only Cares About The Fetus Not The Child
A Mississippi woman said she was fired three years ago from her job at Hobby Lobby after applying for medical leave to deliver her baby.


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Mitch and Tanner Save America!
Mitch and Tanner seek to teach children "real values" in this satire on prejudice and ignorance.

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Rock The Voter News

• 108 solo child migrants given asylum in 2014: US
• Hillary Hits Cheney for Obama Criticism: ‘Should’ve Been Talking About Himself’
• More than a third of U.S. adults pursued by collection agencies

Well, Americans Aren't Cold Hearted After All
Some 70 percent of Americans think the United States should provide temporary support and housing for unaccompanied Central American minors who illegally cross into the country while their cases undergo review, according to a poll released on Tuesday.

According to the Centers for Disease Control, the largest single transmission of deadly germs is a handshake. You're lucky, because the most popular form of greeting here in New York is the middle finger.- David Letterman


Bait & Switch
 At least 17 people were killed in an Israeli strike on a packed Gaza market Wednesday in a deadly raid that came as Israel was observing a four-hour humanitarian lull.

The best part of having the 10 commandments displayed in US courthouses is realizing 8 of them are legal here. - John Fugelsang

The New York Times came out in favor of marijuana legalization. Apparently, someone told them that marijuana users are really into "buying papers."- Seth Myers



Business/Tech News

• Brent oil below $108 on ample supplies
• US Economy Grew 4% in Spring
• Russia counts cost of new US, EU sanctions
• Russia drafts regulation on import duties for Ukraine: document
• Czechs oppose broad Russia sanctions, see new Iron Curtain
• Two former senior Murdoch editors charged over UK phone-hacking

US economy grew 4% in Q2, just the latest evidence that the House GOP policy of witch hunts and show votes is working.- Top Conservative Cat

The GOP Jobs Bill - Keep Jobs Overseas
Republican senators blocked an election-year bill Wednesday to limit tax breaks for U.S. companies that move operations overseas.



“They are actually really debating the firing squad right now. And, of course, there’s a lot of people on the other side who say this is cruel and unusual. Cruel and unusual? This is America. What’s more usual than getting shot?” – Bill Maher

Loopholes: Corporate Icing
A 2009 law that raised federal taxes to discourage smoking cost the U.S. government billions of dollars in lost revenue as manufacturers relabeled products and consumers shifted to cheaper pipe tobacco and large cigars, the U.S. Government Accountability Office said in a report released on Tuesday.



Last week a man in Florida was arrested for trying to steal sushi that he had shoved down his pants, although I bet the wasabi was punishment enough.- Seth Myers

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Odd News

• Arizona inmate uses basketball hoop to leap to freedom
• Indianapolis man buys 2 $1M tickets in 3 months
• Crop circle in Germany attracts many visitors
• Fist bumps relay 90 percent less germs than handshakes: study

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Sometimes, I just like to leave the craziness of earth for a brief shining moment.

Peace.

Meghan McCain: No more Sarah Palin

Meghan McCain: No more Sarah Palin
Meghan McCain won’t be tuning into the Sarah Palin Channel any time soon.
“I am not going to subscribe to Sarah Palin’s $9.95 per month,” McCain said on Monday during her Pivot show TakePart Live. “I got all the Sarah Palin I need for one lifetime.”..After browsing the channel’s website, McCain was less than impressed.



Most popular show on Sarah Palin Channel is the telethon where they collect peaches to impeach Obama. -Gen JC Xtian patriot

The World Is A Safer Place Without Saddam

• Israel hits symbols of Hamas rule; scores killed
• Iraq is already splitting into three states
• Clashes kill 30 in Benghazi in escalating Libya turmoil
• Shelling adds to mounting civilian toll in Ukraine
• Dozens of casualties reported in attack in China's Xinjiang: Xinhua
• US: Russia violated 1987 nuclear missile treaty

“There’s two wars in the Middle East, planes are falling out of the sky at an alarming rate, and Weird Al Yankovic has the number one record.” – Bill Maher

The Atomic Scientists Opinion Of The Iron Dome
Back in 2012, Israel’s Iron Dome rocket defense system was hailed as a real, working battlefield weapon that could shoot down unguided rockets before they struck Israel. Iron Dome was lauded as a game changer in the Israel-Palestine conflict; at the time, Israel claimed that it shot down 441 Hamas rockets in flight, before they could do serious damage.





Email

Lisa,
Come on, Israel has a right to defend itself. You  slant towards Hamas in your recent posts. They are animals using civilians as shields.
I’m disappointed in you.
NYC Al

Al, I totally agree with most of what you wrote except, I am pro Israel and pro unoccupied Palestine.

What other choice does Israel have, to sit there under the Iron Dome and hope for the best? Of course they must defend themselves. I just feel it is overkill, they're shooting fish in a barrel. The Palestinians have no where to go, they're trapped. Then Hamas uses the overkill to justify their hatred of Israel by using their own people as shields. It has been a six decade circle of violence with different faces and names but the same results.

Imagine a woman from the South in the U.S. being in that Hamas situation, she’d probably say, “Bubba have you lost your ever lovin’ mind, you cannot put that rocket launcher in the barn. Get your sorry ass up and move that thing to the back forty.”

All kidding aside, occupying a country has a lousy historical track record. So does that 3000 year old advice of an eye for an eye.

I think of Northern Ireland in this case. For hundreds of years, the Irish were under the Brit’s thumb, they were their n-word. I watched that bloody conflict since the 1960s and finally saw Bill Clinton address their problem by bringing the hearts and minds of people together, by having them begin respecting one another.

Maybe Aretha Franklin was right all along.

“There’s a 12-hour cease-fire in the Middle East with the war. Otherwise known as 'reloading.' ” – Bill Maher 

“57% of Republicans in the latest poll say they want him impeached. I think they wanted him impeached at the inaugural ball.  I think the high crime he’s guilty of is getting elected.” – Bill Maher



Republican Shenanigans

• U.S. House Speaker Boehner dismisses talk of impeaching Obama
• God gave Alabama coal, so EPA can’t tell us not to burn it, state officials say
• Rupert Murdoch’s tabloid accuses 4-year-old boy of having ‘mark of the devil’
• Bill O’Reilly: It’s ‘part of the culture’ in the ‘ghetto’ for 9-year-olds to smoke weed
• George Zimmerman volunteers as security guard at FL gun store. What could go wrong?

If the GOP didn't want to be accused of impeaching over nonsense, they shouldn't have impeached the last Democratic president over nonsense. LOLGOP

Conservatives Constipating The Courts
In the latest effort to sidetrack Obamacare, a federal appeals court on Tuesday rejected a challenge by a conservative group that said Congress imposed new taxes unconstitutionally when it created the Affordable Care Act.



Impeachment talk is nonsense, but nonsense from someone Republicans insisted should be a heartbeat from the presidency-- Benjy Sarlin tweet

Rock The Voter News

• U.S. Senate bill proposes sweeping curbs on NSA surveillance

Impeachment Threat: Cha Ching For Democrats
House Democrats are cashing in on chatter about impeaching President Barack Obama, raising $1 million on Monday alone, their campaign chief said Tuesday.

Child refugees are going to make us all sick!

- the people denying health insurance to 5 million Americans. - LOLGOP



GOP: Govt Shutdown-check...Sequestration....check....No money For Border Crisis....check
Border security will probably suffer if Congress fails to act on President Barack Obama's request for extra money to cope with the explosion of child migrants into the U.S. Southwest, lawmakers and congressional aides warned on Tuesday.

A new survey finds that America’s airlines are the – are the world’s most profitable, and the world’s least comfortable. Why? Because they can. - Bill Maher

'Send them to Guantanamo': New Fox News poll reveals how conservatives would solve the child refugee crisis- Literally Twitchy tweet

Business/Tech News

• More than a third of U.S. adults pursued by collection agencies
• Russia sanctions threaten to blow euro zone off course
• China Censors Web Posts Following Xinjiang Unrest Rumors

Americans need to start recognizing that big business is the new big government. It is the massive, unwieldy bureaucracy that just doesn’t work. Goldman Sachs may have been too big to fail, but the phone company, the credit card company, the mortgage company, the insurance company, they’re all too big to care.- Bill Maher



Destruction Of The Food Chain Continues
 The release of carbon dioxide into the air from power plant smokestacks to the tailpipe on your car could pose a risk to red king crab and other lucrative fisheries in Alaska, a new report says.

MSNBC considering replacing David Gregory with the robot that's hitchhiking across Canada, taking selfies.- LOLGOP

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Odd News

• Elegant Louvre Garden in Paris infested with rats
• More mysterious craters found in Russia's remote Siberia region
• Oak Ridge cancels class to reduce Southern accents
• Wedding reception shut down when brawl breaks out

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Avenue of the Baobab Trees, Madagascar. Photo by Todd Gustafson

Peace.

Sarah Palin's Low-Budget TV Channel Is Pricier Than Netflix

Sarah Palin's Low-Budget TV Channel Is Pricier Than Netflix
Sarah Palin is returning to her roots in low-budget television—but this time, she's  on the web, the focus is American politics, and she owns the network. The Sarah Palin Channel launched Sunday, asking prospective viewers for $9.95 per month–96 cents more than Netflix–or $99.95 a year. (No word on whether subscribers get money back if Palin decides to stick with the project for only half of that term.)



SPUN - Sarah Palin's Unbelievable News



The Sarah Palin Channel because CainTV was ahead of its time. - LOLGOP

The World Is A Safer Place Without Saddam

• US Fuming Over Israeli Criticism Of Kerry
• 38 killed as Libyan forces battle militias in east
• Rocket ignites blaze near Tripoli airport, Libya in chaos
• UN official busts David Gregory for using Israeli propaganda video: ‘That’s really unfair’
• Ukraine rebels appeal to WWII spirit with Soviet propaganda
• The Long History Of The Gaza Tunnels

Obama to close embassy in Libya. House GOP criticizes move despite it being exactly the opposite of what he did in Benghazi.- Top Conservative Cat

No Exodus For You!
Deadly explosions slammed an urban street and a major hospital in the Gaza Strip on Monday, but Israel swiftly disavowed any responsibility for the blasts, one of which killed at least seven children playing in the street and the other hitting the grounds of Shifa Hospital, the most sophisticated medical facility in Gaza.

In texts and tweets, the Israeli military blamed "Gaza terrorists" for the explosions at Shifa and in a Gaza City refugee camp. Palestinian officials and witnesses said Israeli airstrikes caused the blasts.



"Before the incursion that started yesterday the Israeli's agreed to a five hour cease fire so the Palestinians could get supplies and food - how Jewish is that? 'We're going to attack you, but first you should eat.'" –Bill Maher

Meanwhile, Back In Ukraine
Ukrainian government forces recaptured three towns from pro-Russia separatists and were pressing toward the Malaysia Airlines crash site in eastern Ukraine where the separatists accused of downing the plane have obstructed international disaster investigators, officials said Monday.



The only difference between ComicCon and the Republican National Convention is there are fewer codpieces at ComicCon.- LOLGOP

Texas executed one man with an IQ of 61 while another slept comfortably in the Governor's mansion.- John Fugelsang



Republican Shenanigans

• Texas Republican expects U.S. House to pass ‘skinnied-down’ immigration bill
• George Will stuns Fox panel: ‘Preposterous’ that U.S. can’t shelter child refugees from violence
• FL woman caught on video calling neighbor a ‘black f*cking n*gger’ insists she is not a racist
• The Ted Nugent Anthem To Child Rape That ‘Family Values’ Conservatives Should Be Ashamed Of (VIDEO)
• Larry Pratt Doubles Down On Telling Congresswoman She Should Fear Being Shot

Al Cliven Bundy Back In The News
Republican congressmen blasted the Bureau of Land Management last week for their handling of the April standoff with Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy over unpaid grazing fees.

“Whether Bundy was right or wrong, was the BLM’s response reasonable?” said Rep. Tom McClintock (R-CA). “Anyone watching that unfolding fiasco can answer it was completely insane.”

When have Republicans ever been dumb enough to impeach a president over nothing then nominate another Bush?- LOLGOP



Impeachment Is On The Table. They're Passing Out The Tacos.
The Republican Party’s first Tea Party-backed House Majority Whip refused to say that his party would not try to impeachment President Barack Obama if he moves not to deport millions of undocumented immigrants.

Rock The Voter News

• Clinton: US needs orderly process for border kids
• Medicare hospital fund to last 4 years longer

War On Privacy
 U.S. surveillance programs are making it more difficult for government officials to speak to the press anonymously, two rights groups said on Monday.
Large-scale surveillance, on top of the Obama administration's crackdown on national security leaks, threatens the freedom of the press and the right to legal counsel, Human Rights Watch and the American Civil Liberties Union said in a joint report.

"I'm not a feminist!" is the only thing that women would be allowed to say in public if not for feminists.- LOLGOP



Business/Tech News

• Oil Prices Dropping, Refiners Sink
• UN takes aim at Islamist oil grab in Syria, Iraq
• Russia ordered to pay $50 billion over Yukos
• Fracking in UK national parks allowed in 'exceptional circumstances'

Conservatives: Why are these diseased refugees trying to get into America when they can get so many tax breaks abroad?- LOLGOP



No Texas Tea? How Bout Some Iraqi Crude?
A tanker carrying crude oil from Iraqi Kurdistan was cleared by the U.S. Coast Guard to unload its cargo at sea off Texas on Sunday as a State Department official signaled Washington would not intervene to block delivery of the controversial crude...Trading sources in Texas, New York, London, and Geneva have been unable to identify the buyer.

These huge white flags were placed on top of the Brooklyn Bridge. And late this afternoon, word came from the FBI that the New York Mets have surrendered. - Craig Ferguson

"Now the FCC wants to update the Emergency Alert System so the president can interrupt any TV program. 'We interrupt this program so the president can tell America what he had for lunch: a good bowl of matzo ball soup. This concludes today's presidential lunch update.'" –David Letterman


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Odd News

• Strip club endorses Democratic pastor for Congress
• Alien Smog: How Pollution Could Help Locate E.T.
• Koala survives terrifying 54-mile freeway ride by clinging to bottom of car that struck him
• Wyoming Town for Sale Includes Home, Bar, and General Store, But It Has a Few Downsides
• Tortoise an accomplice in alligator's zoo escape?

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Atlantis water slide, Atlantis Resort Paradise Island, Bahamas.

Peace.